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...current Miss Cougar America, 42-year-old single mother and Silicon Valley business consultant Gloria Navarro, who was on last month's cruise, agrees. "I'm not really worried that we're being discriminated against, because this is Carnival's marketing direction," says Navarro. "But unfortunately this could be taken the wrong way by people who don't quite grasp the fact that the day of the gold digger is over and women like me have finally come into their own." As for speculation that cougars somehow didn't fit the cruise line's family focus, she adds...
When I was a child, we had to live in our grandmother's house. My mother, a lone parent, couldn't get a mortgage simply because she was a woman, even though she had a well-paid job. When I qualified as a lawyer in the U.K. three decades ago, women in the legal profession still had to overcome open prejudice and discrimination. So when we examine the position of women across the Middle East, it's important not to despair - or forget our own past...
Childless and twice married, Merkel was cast as an indulgent mother to the electorate during the 2009 campaign. Though she claims to bake the occasional plum cake, she doesn't exactly match the ideal of a German hausfrau. Her second husband, an eminent chemist, often ducks out of official events. "He needs the working day for his science," says Merkel. Such attitudes may have annoyed traditionalists, but her quiet determination has helped her gain broad support well beyond the Christian Democrats' core voters. Even among those who identify themselves as Social Democrats, Merkel's unstuffy pragmatism, social liberalism and commitment...
DAVID GOLDMAN, after winning a five-year custody battle for his 9-year-old son Sean. The child had been living with his deceased mother's family in Brazil when a judge ordered on Dec. 22 that he be returned to his father...
...deemed important enough for the local CIA station to alert top officials at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., and in the White House. Al-Balawi was taken seriously, and trusted enough to warrant a trip to Khost by the CIA's second-in-command in Afghanistan, an unidentified mother of three, to attend the spy's debriefing at a U.S. base. But al-Balawi, who was allowed onto Forward Operating Base Chapman without a body search, was wearing a suicide belt and blew himself up as soon as he encountered his CIA and Jordanian spymasters...